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The views expressed on this podcast are those of the participants, not of Reuters News. He hit himself, but he heard my father at the bottom of the stairs in an animated

phone conversation speaking in fluent Russian and the next morning he told all

of this you know gosh I heard your father on the phone speaking

Russian and we never knew he spoke Russian, we knew he spoke German and Spanish and some Italian,

you know, and so some of these things started pointing in that direction.

You're listening to Reuters War College, a discussion of the world in conflict, focusing on the stories behind the front lines. Hello and welcome to war college. I'm your host Matthew Gaul. Relations between

Russia and America have long been contentious but but has never quite come down to outright blows.

The two superpowers help defeat fascism in World War II, and, though the Cold War was often tense, terrible and tragic,

it never ballooned into a nuclear conflict.

The reasons why are many and varied, but one reason is because of the close personal relationships

that developed between high-level politicians and spies on the ground. Today on War College we're talking

with author Eva Dylan, the author of Spies and the Family. Dylan's story is

incredible and I want her to tell it but let me just say up top that it's about

family the CIA and how an unlikely friendship helped in the Cold War.

Eva thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. So Eva, who was your father? My father was a CIA officer during the Cold

War which we did not know growing up and the fact that I discovered 17 years after his death

that he handled the highest ranking longest serving Soviet double agent our

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